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aout 11 1962
Dear Lucien
Shey, whatchabendoin, runnin with the bull?
INTERVIEW:
‘The renowned French Journalist Lucien‘ Tablet Garr’ interviewing Kerouac:
LUCIEN: (of the U.P.I, which does awful work Like today whea I read a dispatch
I was readin along all. so innocent, and all of a sudden cones a reference to
sombbody called: Mialker" in an therwise unprepared introduction, or ne! er-prepared,
and I said to mysslf, Gad, that UPI, you're stposed to know who Walker 4s)
(actually I spose the mistake of local paper editor)
LUGIEN: Mr. Kerouac, what’ do you think of Marilyn Monioe?’ Your honest opinion.
KEROUAC: She was fucked to death.
WUCIEN: Will. you send us a telegran saying 60?
KEROUAC: Wyat will the telegram girl on the phone’ say?
LUCIEN: She might come up with a substitute.
KEROUAG: Like screw?
LUCIEN: Or .., loved ?
KEAOUAG? Sir? Cant? ‘ ‘
LUCIEN: Or....anything they do....walicihg wounded spittin their pits. You
could say ... say, whattayamgan she was fucked to death?
KEROUAC: It was what was told me about another girl in San Francisco, who Jumped
" off a roof, that ‘she was fucked to death... I understami Joe Di Maggio had a
dong ‘actually as long'as a baseball bat, or bath, and that Arthur Miller had a dong
as long as Robert ‘Shernood.
LUCIM: This concerhs you?
“KEROUAC: * Sir,-T'would Have given her love
‘LUCTRN: How?
KEROUAC: By telling her that she was an Angel of Light and that Clifford Odets
and Strasberg and all the others were the Angels’ of Darktiess and to stay away from
then and cone with ite to a quiet valley in the Yums desert, to grow old together
Liketan old stone man and an old stone woman" ..,-to tell her she was really
» is really, Marylou
LUCIEN: And how wouldyav capped that idealistic inviting demand?
KEROUAC: By saying, Lucien is right when he says I'n a liar... Bat Lucien was
always wrong when he said I had bad blood, that woman with the tail is nit a blood
relative Cover ) Com fen[seis aa ay i varoua Set
once conan ee Nts oc.
ENTER CRAYON Jee-Sus,
JWOTEN How do you know she wasnt « blood relative? You want me to torture you
in tanke?
KEROUAG Lassen pai, I got Genghis Khan in the audience irith me and if you want,
we'll stomp a md hole in you :
LIEN. I got Compbel].,,.Beauregard,..the Rotten Burroughs, Tony Manocchio and
savages on MAH side and we'll stomp a new canton in you and have to build board
walks oyer, it
__KROUAG! I got arehitgete.can either’ suck your spird.up,. or catch you by the foot
ani give you hoof-pnd-mouth disease ,(Pedalus turns, dver.in bis: graye)
LUCIEN Mr Kerouac, how thet our altereations are begun, and I am a journslistes
what do you think saused the.death of Carol Lombard then? . :
KOROUAC Inmploding eyeballs
LUCIEN And of Jean Harlow?, ea
KEROUAC What YOU said:,parrot, cement.
LUCIEN You think you're pretty wise,.guy for-that?
KEROUAC Take thabistraw outa your mouth ae
LUCIEN What is your opinion of ME? eee
KEROUAG I just thought about you with tears, here in.old Orlando, cause it's
been a long time
Interview eds
: with Mugmumps sucking, up
: ‘Angels of Darkness thra long. black
L.. etvaws and sending them;out. to be.
“aristocrats in Atlanta Georgie where Miraculously
you hear the cry’ TAKE MY CHILD DOWN FROM THE CROSS
AND PUT HIM BACK IN UY ARMS, .,
And here, he is, hyar, thyar, everywhyar
(said the Mugwump-cum-Shitass, adding: Enough of beatnik ambiguity,
back to work)
So-this little girl who's mother's just died ssys to me: "0h bring back my dead
Mommy and my dead childhood!" :
“HLL do it.’
Blow?"
‘Rirst you have to do me a favor."
ita 2" .
wGo out in Nevada on the highway between Salt Lake and Reno and if you
dont find ¢ dead-rabbit I'll do it. I'll pay your, fare."
So how can old Kerouac be so bad? =O help to forgive me,
Taek